DOE boss punished me for not carrying out her vendetta: suit

A Department of Education administrator refused to carry out a career hit on two teachers — and was demoted by her controversial superintendent because of it, according to a court complaint.

Former adult-education assistant principal of literacy Luckisha Amankwah claims Rose-Marie Mills sent her to give two instructors bad reviews because they were complaining about Mills to their union. But Amankwah refused to comply with the order and gave them positive marks after observing their work in late 2015, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Amankwah said the insubordination angered Mills, who has been criticized for graduation rates and financial mismanagement of the city’s $52 million adult-ed program. In 2016, just 150 of 28,700 students got diplomas, according to a Post report.

“I wanted to be fair to those teachers,” Amankwah told The Post of her resistance to the alleged decree.

Just a month later, Amankwah was booted from her post at the adult-ed central office in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and sent to work at a school in East New York.

Not wanting to endanger her job outright, Amankwah refrained from protesting the new assignment. But she claims Mills was relentless in her retaliation campaign and began filling up her file with complaints despite her sterling record. “She takes pleasure in using her power to make others uncomfortable,” Amankwah said.

Finally, Amankwah was smacked with an unsatisfactory rating and demoted to education administrator in July, costing her roughly $25,000 a year in salary, according to court papers.

Her suit against the DOE demands the removal of her unsatisfactory evaluation, reinstatement of her title and lost wages.